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I'll have a look at the bluetooth autodetect software, see if we can mode it to fire off a diffrent event when a wii remote is detected, all it uses is MAC addresses of the bluetooth devices, re-building my dev machine at moment so might take abit.

I'll have a look at the bluetooth autodetect software, see if we can mode it to fire off a diffrent event when a wii remote is detected, all it uses is MAC addresses of the bluetooth devices, re-building my dev machine at moment so might take abit.

Cool, that would be great. The only thing wmd needs is a default config file with the MAC address of the controller specified in it.

I'll see how far I can get with making installable debian packages, looks like most of the pre-requisites already have (previous versions) packaged. So apart from possibly having to update those, only libwiimote and wmd need to be debianified.

It would be helpfull if someone could try whether it still works when using the following prebuild packages (ie. older versions) to fulfill the dependencies. Just apt-get them along with the others and then only build libwiimote and wmd from the source.

Though i guess pairing the wiimote with the wii and PC is bothersome? I would have to switch over all the time?

I don't know as I only bought the remote, it was a lot cheaper without the console.

EDIT: Added Ubuntu package name for libwiimote, and corrected python-matplotlib.

I have also tried a backported version (from gutsy) of cwiid packages but that only picked up the buttons and gave errors after a timeout on the rest of the sensors, maybe I'm doing something wrong there.

Well I guess that is some progress, everyone else seems to have lost interest already. The little bit I could figure out is already posted in this thread. Like you I'm just throwing extra info in here that might be usefull, hoping that someone with the right skills and experience will come along and pick this up again. It's likely going to be a while if I even ever get that far (especially considering how "helpfull" the people are that do know something aroud here), so I wouldn't wait for me to fix it if you know what I mean.

thanks for the update zarec,I ended up finding the modprobe info with a bit of hunting in the cwiid wiki

spent hours trying to figure out why it worked in the test app, then stopped working when i tried to make it work for real, then stopped working in the test app, then hcitool stopped working.

damn dodgy bluetooth adapters

Ill post the packages i got it working with and maybe a keymap when i get home, got it working without the light bar too, however i assume the light bar will increase the accuracy of the mouse pointer dramaticly